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Gold sheets, two bronze breastplates, vessels, a spear, and a sheathed sword rest on a plain wooden platform.
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Historical Library · Deuterocanonical Literature
1 Maccabees 6

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· Greek

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Source edition: lxx-swete-1909

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    1 Maccabees 6:2

    Wealth in the Temple

    The King Dies and the Oath Is Broken · 1 Maccabees 6

    Story guide: Gold coverings, breastplates, vessels, and weapons accompany the report of the wealthy temple and the earlier king’s gifts.

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    2and that the temple in it was exceedingly rich, and that there were gold coverings there, and breastplates and weapons, which Alexander son of Philip, the Macedonian king, who first reigned over the Greeks, had left there.

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